Word: combs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rampant. When the Roman legions sailed from Britain, the barbarians who took over had no use for the spacious bathhouses. For centuries Europe remained very nearly dedicated to the proposition that dirtiness is next to godliness. One medieval writer complained about the effeminacy of the Danes, who "used to comb their hair every day, bathed every Saturday and used many other such frivolous means of setting off the beauty of their persons." As late as the 18th century, when residents of Edinburgh threw slops from fifth-floor bedchambers with the cry "Gardy-loo!" (from the French gardez...
When they get the heft of the tools, Teacher De Long's students move on to consider emotions. "What is this writer doing with these words?" she asks, and the writer may be a True Story fictioneer or the adman who coined the phrase, "Ocean-Combed Percales" ("Can the ocean comb anything?"). If the writer is Shakespeare, she wants to know precisely and specifically how the reader is made to feel, for instance, the evil in Lady Macbeth. If the writer is a student, she wants him to say precisely what he feels. "Everything goes back to this general...
...Romans. Searching cave after cave, Dr. Aharoni and his men found many traces of the ancient refugees. Roman coins of widely separated dates suggested that a remnant of the Jewish resistance force held out for a century. From one of the caves came a woman's comb, fragments of clothing, and a piece used in chess or some similar game. In another were arrows with cane shafts, no doubt intended for use against Roman legionnaires. At each end of the wadi, Dr. Aharoni's expedition found the ruins of blockhouses built by the Romans to starve...
...month stretch in a federal pen for perjury, is interested in a job more in keeping with his not inconsiderable abilities. In the past two years he worked his way up to a $20,000-a-year salary as administrative assistant to R. Andrew Smith, a ladies' comb manufacturer. Hiss disclosed last week that he has quit, but kept mum on his new venture. Ex-Employer Smith had qualified praise for him: "An indispensable man," but not quite "a dedicated businessman." Observed Smith vaguely: "Mr. Hiss ought to work for a foundation or a public-service type of thing...